Exhibition “Maritime climate”
As of June 7th, the joint exhibition “Maritime climate” of the painter Ingemāra Treija and ceramic artist Kristīne Lazdāne will be available on display at the art gallery “Roman Garden”. This is the artists’ first joint exhibition in Liepāja, where Ingemāra Treija shows her paintings, while Kristīne Lazdāne participates in the exhibition with her ceramic items.
While creating this joint exhibition, both artists are inviting visitors to talk about the mutual effects and relationships between painting and ceramic art. By including both forms of art in one exhibition, artists play with a relationship between the shapes, expressions and spatial arrangements of artworks. At the same time, artists and their artworks deliberately invite you to discover how the two dimensions of the objects move into three and give you the opportunity to look even for the fourth one – the elusive, sensational and association-based.
The painter Ingemāra Treija dares to handles colors, contrasting tones and textures in her art. She is equally formidable in both, drawing and painting. Urban views, still nature, landscape, waters, meadows and forests – all of which is the background for the main hero character of artist paintings – a human. She clearly positions herself as a talented portraitist. In Ingemāra’s paintings, one may often recognize her friends, colleagues, relatives, as well as people close to her from the old family photos. The paintings also show the artist’s self-portrait, both in the direct and general meaning context.
Ingemāra Treija is a painter, art teacher, project manager, exhibition curator and a Chairperson of the Tukums Artist Group. She studied at the Jānis Rozentāls Arts High School in Rīga. In 1990, she graduated from the monumental painting faculty of the Latvian Academy of Arts under the guidance of the professor Indulis Zariņš. She has upgraded her art studies at the Bremen Art Institute and has also obtained a Master of Humanities degree in Art. Ingemāra Treija is a member of the Latvian Union of Artists.
She has been taking part in group exhibitions since 1989. Ingemāra held several personal exhibitions in Tukums, Ventspils, Talsi and Valka. The creative works by the artist are seen in wall paintings on public and private buildings, as well as in illustrations of books and calendars.
The second section of the “Maritime climate” is composed of the artworks by the ceramic artist Kristīne Lazdāne. The artist displays her both, large-scale sculpture items designed using stone mass and fine and filigree porcelain pieces. The displayed ceramics are characterized by a variety in textures and terrain, creating an easy path to encounter the shape of a seemingly formal object mixed with the artistic reflection based on association reality.
Kristīne Lazdāne has studied at the Ceramic unit of Liepāja Applied Arts High School, and later continued at the Latvian Academy of Arts, where she acquired a Master of Arts degree in 2001. Kristīne Lazdāne is currently a ceramic, composition teacher at the Māra Muižniece Rīga School of Arts, the Pārdaugava School of Music and Arts, and Bauska School of Music and Arts.
The artist co-participates in a variety of creative projects, in the plain – airs, she leads workshops and takes part annually in joint exhibitions, also organizes personal exhibitions. Kristīne Lazdāne is the Head of the open workshop and gallery “Kartelis”.
An exclusive meeting with the two artists on what appears to be seen and experienced at the exhibition “Maritime climate” will take place on June 19th, at 17.00 in the exhibition hall of the gallery “Roman Garden”, where everyone interested will have an opportunity to talk about the features of the exhibition and art, done by both artists.
The exhibition at the gallery “Roman Garden” will be available for visits till September 14th, 2019.
Entry ticket price for adults €2, 50, students and seniors €1.00; for children – free entry.
